Michael Eldon

The Rt Rev Michael Hartley Eldon was an Anglican Bishop in the last third of the 20th century.^[1]
Born on 8 August 1931 ^[2] and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1955.^[3] After curacies in Nassau he spent nine years on Grand Bahama, rising in time to be Archdeacon of the island. In 1971 he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of New Providence^[4] and a year later the first Bahamian^[5] Bishop of Nassau,^[6] resigning 24 years later.

Notes

1. ^ Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas
2. ^ St George’s, Nassau web-site
3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153674
4. ^ The Times, Saturday, Feb 26, 1972; pg. 4; Issue 58412; col B Church News
5. ^ Nassau Guardian
6. ^ Anglican church in the Bahamas

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Preceded by Bernard Markham	Bishop of Nassau 1972 –1996	Succeeded by Drexel Gomez

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Name	Markham, Bernard
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Date of birth	1931
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